Shocked that companies and mutual funds would invest OPM (Other People's Money) in high-risk investments, the Shocked Investor was originally on a mission to find out if our money ended up in these dubious instruments. This blog now also discusses other financial topics, such as straddles, options, gold, natural gas, agri/food stocks, and the collapse of the US Dollar.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The stock market rebounding today offers another great opportunity for straddles. Here are straddles for the Nasdaq, financials, and oil using our favorites ETFs. These will greatly benefit if the market crashes or goes substantially higher.

QQQQ (June and July) and XLF (July):

UCO (June and July):

Computed with StraddlesCalc Tool, which shows the maximum moves required by the underlying ETF for the options position to achieve profitability.

Note: You may receive technical analysis and alerts of these stocks, sent automatically to you, by entering the symbols in the Technical Trend Analysis Tool, (powered by INO).

Please do your own due diligence. This is not advice. Options are very dangerous and may cause 100% loss.